CARACAS - (AP) -- Venezuelan prosecutors Wednesday asked for Interpol's help locating four dissident military officers -- two of them known to be in a
  U.S. immigration lockup in Miami -- accused of bombing two diplomatic missions in Caracas.

  Prosecutor Gilberto Landaeta asked Interpol to find National Guard Gen. Felipe Rodríguez, Army Col. Yussepe Piliery and army lieutenants José Colina and
  Germán Varela, all believed to be in Florida, according to a statement from the attorney general's office.

  U.S. immigration officials last month announced Varela and Colina were taken into custody after they arrived in Miami on a commercial flight from Colombia
  and requested political asylum, claiming that Venezuelan police were trying to arrest them merely for their political opposition to leftist President Hugo
  Chávez.

  CHARGES

  Venezuelan prosecutors have charged the four men with the Feb. 25 bombings of the Colombian consulate and Spanish embassy in Caracas, alleging that
  they were trying to make the attacks seem to be the work of Chávez supporters in order to turn the Bogotá and Madrid governments against the
  president. The blasts injured four people.

  The attorney general's office said it had not yet determined what steps it would take if the officers are found.

  Carlos Bastidas, a lawyer for Rodriguez, confirmed that Colina and Varela were in the United States seeking political asylum.

  BELONG TO GROUP

  He said he did not know where Rodríguez and Piliery were, but added that his client had no plans to ask for asylum in any country.

  The four belong to a group of about 100 dissident officers who occupied a Caracas plaza in early 2002 and futilely called for rebellion against Chavez's
  government.

  The U.S. Embassy declined to comment.

  Officials at the U.S. State Department did not immediately return requests for comment.